Businessman, municipal official.
Born in England on 16 September 1866, son of Joseph Shaw (1834-1915) and Frances Draper (1835-?) and brother of William Robert Shaw, he came to Canada and was Reeve (1910) of the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead, served on the Beausejour Municipal Council, and was a founding member of the Brokenhead Agricultural Society.
On 23 June 1891, he married Sarah Annie Law (1872-1918) at Winnipeg and they had five children: Joseph “Tarlton” Shaw (1896-1982) and Rosalee Elsie “Rose” Shaw (1900-?, wife of Albert Samuel Elliott), Frances Winnifred Shaw (1892-?, wife of William Black), Gertrude Alice “Gertie” Shaw (1896-?, wife of William Todd Turner), and Queenie Shaw (1893-1922, wife of Alfred William Pitt). Their Beausejour residence faced Park Avenue, just east of Third Street.
He died at Penticton, British Columbia on 23 December 1940 and was buried in the Lakeview Cemetery there.
1901 and 1911 Canada censes, Automated Genealogy.
Birth, marriage, and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Joseph Shaw], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
They Stopped at a Good Place: A History of the Beausejour, Brokenhead, Garson and Tyndall Area of Manitoba - 1875-1981 by the Beausejour-Brokenhead Historical Committee, 1982.
FindAGrave, Beausejour Cemetery.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 5 August 2024
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